On Rhetoric
Peri Rhetorikes
Fragmentary books reconstructing Philodemus's Epicurean case that only sophistic (epideictic) rhetoric is a genuine art, while political and forensic oratory rest on mere knack and experience, survive only as carbonized papyrus rolls from the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum.
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